Airwolf Season 2
August 28th, 2007
Summary
Created by Donald P. Bellisario, who had already had such hits as ‘Magnum p.i.’ (1980-1988), ‘Airwolf’ followed the adventures of a hi-tech helicopter and it’s reclusive pilot, Stringfellow Hawke.
Bellisario developed Airwolf (early working titles: Blackwolf, Lonewolf), from the loose concept of a third season ‘Magnum p.i.’ episode he’d previously written, titled ‘Two Birds Of A Feather’ (1983) - an unsold Pilot about a treasure-hunting, adventure-loving ace combat pilot named Sam Houston Hunter (William Lucking). Bellisario had come up with the concept after Lucking played a similar character in a couple of episodes of another Bellisario series, ‘Tales Of The Gold Monkey’ (1982-3). After the proposed new series wasn’t picked up, Bellisario took the bare bones of the concept, and eventually developed the premise into ‘Airwolf’.
Airwolf itself was a hi-tech attack helicopter, equipped with cutting-edge on-board computer, surveillance and radar systems, able to fly quicker than the fastest jets, and armed with awesome fire-power. Dubbed “The Lady” due to it’s slender grace, Airwolf had been constructed by “The Firm”, a mysterious, top-secret division of the C.I.A., distinguishable by it’s agents all-white dress code.
At the start of the Pilot adventure, we see Airwolf on its maiden test flight, piloted by its creator, Dr. Moffet (David Hemmings). But after the successful test flight, the twisted Moffet turns the chopper’s lethal fire-power onto the flight tower, causing carnage, before heading off to Libya in the machine.
Michael Coldsmith-Briggs III, codename “Archangel” (Alex Cord), the head of the division who built Airwolf, is badly wounded in the assault but not yet out of the game. Now wearing an eye-patch and walking with aid of a cane as a result of his injuries, he calls upon ace combat pilot Stringfellow Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent) to take the task of bringing back Airwolf from Libya. Hawke is a cello-playing recluse, living in his scenaric cabin in the mountains – with a priceless art collection, and with only his dog Tet for company - ever since his brother Saint John went Missing In Action in the Vietnam War, never to be found.
Hawke eventually agrees to take the mission, aided by his only close friend, Dominic Santini (Ernest Borgnine). Much Hawke’s senior, Dominic was very much his mentor, who was prone to the odd bout of grouchiness, but for the majority of the time was raucously cheerful. He owned Santini Air, a flight company that’s main vehicles were decked out in stars and stripes, which specialised in performing arial stunts for films.
Hawke and Dominic prised Airwolf back from Moffet’s clutches (blowing away it’s twisted genius creator in the process), but Hawke wasn’t ready to return it back over to the Firm just yet. Hiding it in a hollow mountain in the middle of the desert wilderness, he refused to return the super-chopper until the Firm found solid information about his M.I.A. brother St. John, be he dead or alive.
Thus was set the scenario for the series, with Archangel - usually accompanied by assistant Marella (Deborah Pratt) - calling upon Hawke in times of crisis to fly Airwolf on missions of national concern, with the occasional glimmer of hope regarding finding St. John - or at least solid information about his fate - thrown in for good measure.
The first season was intelligently written, with a very classy, elegant feel. It was in many ways ahead of it’s time, being distinctly dark and dramatic, with heavy religious over-tones and symbolisms, and with stories revolving around cases of international espionage, spying, and such-like, and much talk of “the opposition” - be it taken to be Libyans, the Russians, or whichever assumptions one took.
The series did fairly well in the ratings, but C.B.S. wanted to achieve even higher, by “domesticating” the show more – to make stories less dark and symbolic, and to make things more light-hearted to try and win a wider audience.
When the second season arrived, it brought with it the most significant and notable change - the introduction of a regular female cast member, created by Bellisario after C.B.S.’s insistence. Introduced in the season’s opening episode, ‘Sweet Britches’, Jean Bruce Scott was brought in as feisty Caitlin O’Shannessy, who within the season’s first few episodes was set-up as a regular character, working at Santini Air, and before long became the occasional third Airwolf pilot. Also with the new season, The Firm was blended into the background somewhat, to allow more wider-ranging stories, again mostly due to C.B.S.’s insistance.
Overall the season did well, with much of the dark intrigue still surviving from the first series, mixed with the new slightly lighter-hearted, wider-reaching stories. In the meantime, Bellisario and Deborah Pratt, having met on the show, had married. But by the end of the season, Bellisario had grown increasingly tired of C.B.S.’ constant “interfering” with his original vision for the series, and eventually left, taking Pratt with him. The pair left to work on new projects of their own, the biggest and most popular to date being ‘Quantum Leap’ (with which Airwolf shares much of it’s dark, religious over-tones, as well as also using a horde of the same Bellisario-favoured actors and crew).
Also behind the scenes, Jan-Michael Vincent’s troubled personal life - including battles with drink and drugs, and frequence fights with his wife - were increasingly causing problems during production of the series. Vincent actually broke his arm during one such drunken row with his wife, mid-production of one episode, ‘Sins Of The Past’, with his right arm visibally hanging limp throughout much of the episode as a result.
C.B.S. brought the series back for a third season, now without Bellisario’s overseeing (his name on the show survived only as ‘Created by’ on the opening credits). While still offering up some good episodes, including some very impressive action set pieces (both airborne and otherwise), overall the previous sharp, clever script quality was now somewhat lower, and things were by now noticeably more watered down, with the series now acting as a more all-round “family” action-adventure show. Whilst they still occasionally had their moments, both Hawke’s reclusive broodiness, and the whole eerie mysteriousness surrounding The Firm – two key factors in Bellisario’s original vision - were by now very toned down. (Incidentally, with the third season, the Firm became spelt as an acronym, “the F.I.R.M.”, though what these initials stood for was never explained.) The majority of episode plots were by now a far cry from the original season’s dark themes; it’s often commented (rightly so in several cases) that, far from the early stories of international emergencies, many of this season’s stories seemed to revolve around little more than domestic feuds!
But the worse was yet to come…
C.B.S. finally called it a day with ‘Airwolf’ at the end of the third season in 1986 - the last episode being ‘Birds Of Paradise’, an avarage episode which didn’t serve to round to series off in any way. Despite C.B.S.’s constant tampering trying to make it an even bigger hit, in the long-run was much the cause of the demise of the show, with ratings gradually dropping mostly as a result of the third season’s many more “family friendly” story-lines which lost favour with many fans. Jan-Michael Vincent’s ever increasingly troubled personal life had done nothing to ease production of the series, either. However, the rights to the series were brought by a small TV company, Atlantis, for the USA Network, and a new series was commissioned for syndication.
Ep 1: Sweet Britches
First aired: 9/22/1984
After an old Vietnam buddy of Hawke’s is shot in the desert when trying to escape a corrupt Sheriff, Hawke gets a call from an inmate who had been in jail with the man to aleart him of the escape, and flies with Dominic in Airwolf to Pope County, Texas, to investigate. There, Hawke meets Highway Patrol Deputy Caitlin O’Shannessy, who had a run in with Sheriff Bogard prior to the killing; but Hawke’s appearance on the scene sees him arrested by Bogard and released on a private game reserve, where gun-happy sportsmen pay big money to hunt big game – and Hawke is the latest bait…
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Ep 2: Firestorm (
First aired: 9/29/1984
Eddie, a friend of Dominic’s, was once a pilot until a air crash in which his passengers were killed, causing him to loose his nerve and turn to drink as a result. Living alone in his trailer in the desert, Eddie’s alcohol problem has recently become even worse after supposedly seeing lights in the sky in the middle of the night. Though trying to help his friend, Dominic is as sceptical as everyone else, blaming the sightings on Eddie’s drunken state, until one night he sees the lights to. The next morning, Hawke arrives to find that the pair of them have vanished, and in searching for them, stumbles upon a fanatical militarist’s organisation, who is planning to launch his own nuclear missile against Russia…
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Ep 3: Moffett’s Ghost
First aired: 10/6/1984
In the midst of it’s key part in delivering and collecting a leading American scientist to top secret sanctions aimed at cooling international tensions with Russians, Airwolf develops a seeming computer virus in it’s systems, which periodically takes pilot control and makes it a potential killing machine in the air. The systems have been taken over buy a “time-bomb” left by the chopper’s evil creator, Dr. Moffett, who has programmed it to begin the deadly behaviour if not given it a recognition code by him at that time.
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Ep 4: The Truth About Holly
First aired: 10/13/1984
After Hawke rescues Dominic’s niece Holly from a mobster’s compound in Mexico, strange things start happening at Santini Air. At first, Hawke and Dominic assume that the mobster is trying to scare the girl, but, especially when Hawke turns down Holly’s advances of romance, the incidents get worse… Meanwhile, Caitlin O’Shannessy arrives fresh from her escapade with Hawke against the corrupt Police of Pope County, and looks for work at Santini Air. He close relationship with Hawke somehow seems to fuel the incidents…
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Ep 5: The Hunted
First aired: 10/20/1984
Santini Air is hired for a 30 day period by agents on behalf of a industrial millionaire, to be on stand-by to pilot the man on an important journey when called upon. Dominic is excited at the prospect of the high-paying job, but Hawke is more sceptical and intends to find out just why they’ve been given the contract. But unbeknown to any of them, Caitlin’s new boyfriend is plotting to assassinate the millionaire; and matters are not helped any by some malfunctions that Airwolf is suffering…
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Ep 6: Sins of the Past
First aired: 10/27/1984
Dominic is distraught to hear that his daughter Sally-Anne – whom Hawke never even knew existed – has been found dead on the beach after over-dosing on the Caribbean Island of San Remo, where Dom himself was born. Detouring in their way to a top-secret Airwolf mission for the Firm, Hawke flies Dominic to the island to attend the funeral. Upon returning to Santini Air, Dom is arrested for Lila’s murder, and Hawke flies back to the island to track down her real killer, focusing his sights on a local casino owner.
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Ep 7: Fallen Angel
First aired: 11/3/1984
String must add Caitlin to the Airwolf crew, in order to rescue Archangel from behind enemy lines.
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Ep 8: HX 1
First aired: 11/10/1984
When new hi-tech attack chopper HX1 is stolen by an elite group of mercenaries, the tactics used fits those that Hawke’s MIA brother St. John was trained in, and Hawke is certain that his brother may somehow be involved. Dominic begs him to leave well alone, but Hawke is adamant, and with Archangel insisting that if it can’t be retrieved, the Firm will blow HX1 and anyone flying it out of the sky, Hawke goes back into his past and some of the people he knows from it, to desperately try and get a lead on the group and mercenaries and possibly St. John. But the HX1 is so powerful, it may even be able to blow Airwolf out of the sky…
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Ep 9: Flight #093 Is Missing
First aired: 11/17/1984
Caitlin is a passenger on board a plane which Airwolf is sent to search for after the plane is hijacked and forced down at sea.
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Ep 10: Once a Hero
First aired: 11/24/1984
String receives information that St. John is being held in a POW camp, but by the time a rescue operations put into effect St. John has been moved.
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Ep 11: Random Target
First aired: 12/8/1984
While filming aerial footage, String and Dom accidentally get footage of a mobster believed dead.
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ep 12: Condemned
First aired: 1/5/1985
String and Caitlin are sent to a remote Alaskan research station where a deadly Russian bacteria has been let loose.
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Ep 13: The American Dream
First aired: 1/12/1985
The Airwolf crew decides to help a group of Vietnamese farmers get their crop to market, after a warlord threatens their lives.
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Ep 14: Inn at the End of the Road
First aired: 1/26/1985
A pilot who escaped from terrorists who stole an experimental aircraft guidance computer leads the Airwolf team to the remote community where the terrorists are holed up.
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Ep 15: Santini’s Millions
First aired: 2/2/1985
Dom inherits from the estate of a millionaire whom he had earlier rescued from a plane crash.
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Ep 16: Prisoner of Yesterday
First aired: 2/9/1985
The Airwolf team ends up stopping a Banana republic coup when they set out to rescue Doc, who had been kidnapped to treat the nation’s leader.
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Ep 17: Natural Born
First aired: 2/23/1985
The Airwolf crew befriends a runaway looking for revenge on the drug runners that murdered his uncle.
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Ep 18: Out of the Sky
First aired: 3/2/1985
While working on a music video, String helps a country singer whose manager plans to kill her in an effort to boost album sales.
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Ep 19: Dambreakers
First aired: 3/16/1985
String and a reporter friend are taken hostage by terrorists who have taken over a Christian commune.
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Ep 20: Severance Pay
First aired: 3/23/1985
String must bring in a disgruntled former Firm employee whose been denied his retirement benefits.
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Ep 21: Eruption
First aired: 4/6/1985
After being forced down by a volcano eruption, String and Dom discover a mining town being run as a slave colony.
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Ep 22: Short Walk to Freedom
First aired: 4/13/1985
String is captured by Latin American revolutionaries while attempting to rescue American archaeological students trapped by a coup.
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